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It seems like every year NFL draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. is asked which players helped themselves the most based on performances at the NFL combine. It is unusual, however, that he calls the name of a player whose career was at UConn. "The guys that I highlighted — obviously Malcolm Brown from Texas, but you think about Dick Beasley from Clemson, you think about Byron Jones, the safety/corner from Connecticut," Kiper said during a national conference call Thursday. For the people who have followed Jones from New Britain to St. Paul-Bristol and UConn, that is good news. Jones' 12-foot-3 broad jump on Monday, an NFL combine record also believed to be a world record, and...

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